Language Log: Translate Server Error
This is probably the most egregious of all Chinese-English translation fails: We saw the identical mistake on a giant banner outside of a cafeteria half-a-dozen years ago: see "Honest but unhelpful"....
View ArticleLanguage Log: Affirmative action
Yesterday a journalist asked me about the background of the term "affirmative action". I turned up a few things like this, from a (2006 reprint of a) 1954 book French Administrative Law and the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Identify Mystery Text, Win $1000
From the University Chicago Library News: Calling all historians of cryptography and stenography, Sherlockians (see “The Dancing Men”), and other amateur detectives! The collection of Homer editions...
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